'A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
'A masterpiece, full of fire and tragedy' Amanda Foreman
'Rarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined' John Adamson, Daily Telegraph
John Guy is the author of numerous histories, including 'Tudor England', which has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and 'My Heart is My Own', which won the Whitbread Biography Award. He is a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge and also lectures in the Faculty of History. He became an Honorary Research Professor of the University of St Andrews in 2003.